Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. in Hooker, W.J. (1 May 1837), Characters of new species of Indian Acanthaceae. Companion to the Botanical Magazine 2(22): 310 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Wright Cat. n. 1932"

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 88 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 544 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 99 [secondary reference]

Kuntze, C.E.O. (5 November 1891), Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 497 [basionym]

basionym of: Staurogyne glauca (Nees) Kuntze legitimate

Fitzgerald, W.V. (1918), The Botany of the Kimberleys, north-west Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 3: 208 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 259 [secondary reference]

Anonymous (1977), Annual Report for 1976/77. Annual Report of the Botany Branch and the Queensland Herbarium: 10 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 152 [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Staurogyne glauca (Nees) Kuntze legitimate

Barker, R.M. (12 September 1986), A taxonomic revision of Australian Acanthaceae. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 9: 62-64 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Staurogyne leptocaulis subsp. decumbens R.M.Barker legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 88

Daniel, T.F. & McDade, L.A. (2014), Nelsonioideae (Lamiales: Acanthaceae): Revision of genera and catalog of species. Aliso 32(1): 39 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Staurogyne spatulata (Blume) Koord. legitimate

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